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However much you hate it or laugh at it , you will never be happy away from it for any length of time . The suet puddings and the red pillar - boxes have entered into your soul . Good or evil , it is yours , you belong to it , and this ...
However much you hate it or laugh at it , you will never be happy away from it for any length of time . The suet puddings and the red pillar - boxes have entered into your soul . Good or evil , it is yours , you belong to it , and this ...
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They have never caught up with power politics . The “ realism ” which is preached in Japanese and Italian newspapers would horrify them . One can learn a good deal about the spirit of England from the comic coloured postcards that you ...
They have never caught up with power politics . The “ realism ” which is preached in Japanese and Italian newspapers would horrify them . One can learn a good deal about the spirit of England from the comic coloured postcards that you ...
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That means that there will have to arise something that has never yet existed in England , a Socialist movement that actually has the mass of the people behind it . But one must start by recognizing why it is that English Socialism has ...
That means that there will have to arise something that has never yet existed in England , a Socialist movement that actually has the mass of the people behind it . But one must start by recognizing why it is that English Socialism has ...
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User Review - the.ken.petersen - LibraryThingIt seems harsh to criticise George Orwell's optimism when he implies that socialism has become inevitable: he was writing in 1941, I thought so in 1980. Sadly, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and ... Read full review
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| Title | The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius Issue 1 of Searchlight books |
| Author | George Orwell |
| Publisher | Secker & Warburg, 1941 |
| Length | 126 pages |
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